yay, the blog is working again. Coldplay does rock. Ummm heres a new topic if ya'll want it.... I've talked a bit lately to a lesbian girl who lives on my hall. I dont think she claims to have a faith really. I am talking to her and getting to know her as a person and i admire how upfront she is with what her life is like and who she feels she is, ect. Shes quite real. Anyways, she mentioned to me that she felt akward living on a hall with so many "religious people". I've noticed that few people have engaged her sence she moved up here. When i tell people that she is someone i enjoy talking with people react either uncomfortable, as if talking to her was not somthing they had thought of, or outright discusted by who she is and saying they couldnt handle being around her. Perhaps it is because my step sister is a lesbian that I dont have these same reactions, but shoot, i feel like im kinda alone in thinking that its ok to love homosexuals. Its like the church says that its a sin (granted-if they even say that) but we dont seem to know how to act on reaching these people. Like "its a sin" is a theory not a reality to us. Cause it seems to me that if we really thought it was a sinful lifestyle on the same level with, say, being a drug addict, we would be acting out to help these people see that true life is not found in what they are doing, just as we wouldnt hesatate to do for the kid who does crack. I dont see much of this happening however. I never hear much about the Vineyard ministry to gays and i dont understand why this is. I know it might just be me, but are we kinda ignoreing the problem? I mean, i never heard it preached on in Godspeed, and it very much needed to be adressed there. If i struggled with homosexuality I do not think that, from my own personal experiance, that i would think the church was willing to adress my issue, and therefore Christianity probibily wouldnt ever touch my core. And, if i did struggle with this, it would probibily be the single issue i would really struggle to feel comfortable telling almost anyone in Godspeed about or any other christians for that matter either. Cause its the one issue that we arnt willing to forgive in each other. It is foreign and it is dirty aparently more then any other sin. From my recent experiances, i get the feeling that a lot of christians like just want to disreguard gays alltogether. Even those of us who are not simply disgusted by them dont know how to witness in any real way to them. I sure as crap dont. Right now the only way that makes sence to me is to be the one girl on my hall who is willing to at least kinda be a friend to the gay girl. Beyond just loving her, im kinda clueless, but i feel like it would take a lot of love from a christian to undo the crap that has bult up in her towards our faith. Am I off here? I feel like i am deviateing far from the norm i see in the church, and that always sends up flags for me. What do you guys think? Am i missing somthing?